704 



INDEX. 



Manorial rights, 



loss of, by necessity to plead 

 the charter, 133. 



Manufactures, 



distribution of, in thirteenth 

 century, 467 note. 



Manumission, 

 charter of, 88. 



Manure, 



farm-yard and stable, 19. 



Mareschallus, 

 see Farrier, 31. 



Market-days, 



ancient, same as at present, 

 14. 



Markets, 134 sqq. 



tolls of, source of income, 



64. 

 Markham, Gervase, 



his description of a plough, 



534- 



Marking-irons, 532. 

 Marling land, 19. 



rate of, 286. 



Masons, 



wages of, 276. 



Matilda, Empress, the, 



her escape from Oxford, 656. 



Matthew Paris, 



tone of his history, 4, 5. 



Mattocks, 

 price of, 540. 



Mayor, Lord, 



conduct of, in peasants' war, 



85- 

 Meadow, natural, 



very dear, 17. 



Measures, 



kinds of, 550. 

 price of, 550. 

 superficial, kinds of, 170. 

 by tale, kinds of, 171. 

 linear, kinds of, 171. 

 solid, 171. 



liquid, kinds of, 172. 

 statutes regulating, 172 note. 



Meat, 



cheapness of, 57. 



.Medicines, 648. 



for sheep, 460. 



Mercheta, 77. 

 Mercury, 



known to Aristotle, 462 note. 



sources of, 462. 



used for sheep-dressing, 462. 



Merton College, 



early adopted lease farming ; 

 charter of; employment 

 of fellows, 22. 

 suit of, at Gamlingay, 126. 

 warden and fellows of; peti- 

 tion to hold their land in 

 free alms, 155. 

 bell-tower at, built in 1448, 



258. 



the chapel never really finish- 

 ed, 485. 

 books of, 646. 

 Metairie, 



system analogous to, 25. 

 existed in England, 667. 

 Metrical system, 



rude attempt at, 165. 

 Mett, or mitta, 



local measure, 168. 

 Middleton, John, 



journeys to Avignon; keeps 

 accounts of this, and jour- 

 ney to Northumberland, 

 135- 

 Miller, 



liable to pillory for acts of 

 dishonesty, 502. 

 Mills, 



in most manors, water or 

 wind ; franchises ; costly 

 structures, 33. 

 making, cost of, 502. 

 a valuable franchise, *,O2. 

 of two kinds, 503. 

 fabric of, timber, 503. 

 leases of, early, 503. 

 apple and mustard, 511. 

 hand, pepper, &c., price of, 



551- 

 Millstones, 33. 



best from Paris, 145. 



kinds of, 504. 



purchase of, in 1331, 505, 



sqq. 

 from Andernach in Roman 



times, 510 note. 

 annual prices of, 515. 

 decennial prices of, 521. 



Buckinghamshire, 



decennial prices of, 521. 

 Mill-wheel, 



homage consulted at making 

 of, 1 18. 

 Milner, 



" Antiquities of Winchester" 

 quoted, 167. 

 Miniver, 



price of, 584. 

 Misselden, 



" Circle of Commerce," 367. 



Mohair, 580. 

 Mole-catching, 33. 



and rat catching, 282. 



Monasteries, 



interested in keeping goo 



roads, 654. 

 Monasticism, 



effects of, similar to emigrs 



tion, 58. 

 Money, 



values of, 682 sqq. 

 Monks, 



engaged in naturalizing fisl 



648. 



Montfort, Simon de, 



different from older barons,^ 

 Mortars and pestles, 



price of, 552. 



Mowing and making hay, 16, 

 grass, 



rates of, 272. 

 Multiple of value, 



various, 682. 

 Muniment-rooms, 



built in all considerable places 



512. 

 Muratori, Antiqq., 



quoted, 595. 

 Murrain, 



generic name for cattl 

 diseases, 19. 



losses by, 53. 

 Muscles, 



price of, 617. 

 Mustard-seed, 223. 



N. 

 Nails, board, &c. 



annual prices of, 515. 



decennial prices of, 521. 

 large, 



price of, 498. 

 Navy, 



victualling bill in 1547, 5J 

 Nets, fishing, 



charge of, 6 1 1 . 

 Nettles, 



used as vegetables, 66. 

 New College, Oxford, 



farms its land by bailiff lonj 

 after Merton ceases to dc 

 so, 25. 



iron doors to muniment-room, 

 512. 



library at foundation, 1 24. 



Liber Albus of, 646. 

 Newgate, 74. 



